Do you want to relax and swim in two seas at once? Then welcome to the Chushka Spit in the Krasnodar Territory! One of the most frequently visited resort places is located in a unique place - between the Black and Azov Seas on the Taman Peninsula.
Location of the unique spit
Tourists who have decided to relax in the Kuban should choose the direction to Taman Peninsula. In addition to the well-known resort attractions of Taman, at the junction of the Black and Azov seas there is a sandbank 18 kilometers long. Its name is Chushka Spit. It originates from Cape Achilleion and stretches to southwest direction deep into the Kerch Strait.
Along the spit in the direction of the port of Kavkaz, there is an important highway and railway tracks.
On the peninsular spit itself is the village of the same name Chushka. You can get here by car, the journey from the mainland will take 20 minutes. The village is small and not a resort, there are no vacationers here.
Rest in the west of Taman
If your choice fell on western part Taman Peninsula, and you spend your holidays in the village Krasnodar Territory Kuchugury, Priazovsky or Ilyich, take your time and go to the Chushka Spit.
The sandbank of the spit is covered with vegetation and has an unusual landscape. From the side of the Sea of Azov, the coast is flat, and from the side of the Black Sea coast, branches go deeper. Sea fish spawn between these coastal processes at the beginning of summer: pike, flounder, crucian carp and Baltic herring.
That is why avid fishermen leave good feedback about the rest on the Spit Chushka with such heat - this is a great place to go fishing for your pleasure and go home with a big catch.
For picnic lovers, this place will also be pleasant discovery. There are not a huge number of vacationers with sunbeds, sunshades and churchkhela sellers here. On the Chushka Spit, right between the sea shores, you can settle down with a friendly company, fry a shish kebab or a freshly caught fish, swim in plenty in any of the two seas.
The only disadvantage of swimming here is a small shell rock with sharp edges, which is strewn with the shore and the entrance to the sea. But for children who like to delve into shells in search of the most beautiful specimens, this place will become a real storehouse of marine treasures.
Raisins Chushki
The spit has its own small volcano with a name corresponding to Chushka - Blevaka. locals gave it such a sonorous name because of the peculiarity of its mud eruptions, which are fully characterized by this name.
There are four separate islands off the coast - Krupinino, Dzendzik, Lisiy and Golenky. On the first two, you can land by sailing on a boat. Krupinino and Dzendzik are quite popular holiday destinations for both local youth and vacationers.
The nearest resort village in the Temryuk district to the Chushka spit
At the beginning of the peninsular spit lies the village of Ilyich. This is a fairly popular place for lovers of rural silence and fresh homemade products. Here you will not find noisy discos and bars that prevent you from sleeping all night.
The village is immersed in greenery, roosters sing in the mornings and it smells deliciously of homemade cakes from neighboring windows. The best thing is to take a break from the busy city rhythm.
The port of Kavkaz is located 12 kilometers from Ilyich, which is far enough so that the port mud does not swim to the local beaches.
The village is geared towards tourists. Therefore, despite the rustic surroundings, here you will find all the necessary amenities. This is a bank branch, several ATMs, shops, a market. It has its own clinic and pharmacy. For walking and relaxing here is located small park and several cafes where you can not only eat sweets, but also have a hearty lunch or dinner. The menu in such cafes is designed for vacationers, which means that, despite the lack of a chic environment and reasonable prices, the choice of dishes is quite large and the food is fresh.
You can book a room in any of the local mini-hotels via the Internet, all means of communication in the village are available. Ilyich has a good choice of accommodation for tourists. You can choose rooms near the sea, but this, of course, will cost more than a similar room 500 meters from the coast. Most of the housing options offered have air conditioning and bathrooms.
The beaches in the village are striking in their diversity. You can choose pebble or sandy beach, with or without trees. A convenient entrance to the sea is suitable even for small children: there are no cliffs and holes, and the bottom itself is smooth and sandy.
Utilities in Ilyich do not neglect their duties: along the entire line of the beach, as well as in the village itself, there are garbage cans that are cleaned by public utilities on a regular basis. And in general, this place is quite clean even in the hot season.
One road and many footpaths lead to the beach. One path stretches along the entire coast and replaces the promenade.
Results
Like lovers beach holiday, and active, it will be interesting to visit this unusual creation of nature - the Chushka Spit. Rumor has it that every year Chushka goes under water a little, so don't miss your chance to visit this unique place while it still exists.
The Temryuk region is a region of carefully watered vine and melon plantations, dozens of bays and estuaries, mud volcanoes and bright green river floodplains. This area has always been proud of our Krasnodar region. Spit Chushka is one of the reasons for this. We are talking about a sandbar in the Kerch Strait 18 km long. It is possible to have excellent spa vacation. Leisure is designed for the whole family - children are waiting for quite safe entries into the water, as well as gentle sand. Proximity to the road will also please.
Where is the Chushka Spit located?
The map gives the traveler an idea of the location of the picturesque spit. It begins as a continuation of Cape Achilleion and goes southwest at a right angle. It stretches towards Tuzla - these shoals are separated by only 6 km of water.
On the map of the Krasnodar Territory, the Chushka Spit is located as follows:
Historical information
Hundreds of years ago, strong storms struck in Kerch Strait so much sand that several huge shallows formed here: like Chushka, Chushka once blocked the strait altogether and served as the shortest road from the Crimea to North Caucasus. The name of the attraction was born from the local inhabitants in the 19th century. The fact is that dolphins were often thrown at it, and the Little Russians called them porpoises: a pig in their dialect sounds like “chushka”.
During the years of the Nazi occupation of the Crimea, the Reich Minister proposed to build a crossing to the Caucasus here, but the Germans did not have time to do this before the onset of the Red Army.
In 1944, the spit was nevertheless connected to the Crimea by a railway bridge - by the forces of already Soviet workers. However, a large ice drift demolished this structure in the same year, and the new design solutions did not find a response from the then leadership of the country. Today, the recreation, elongated and overgrown with reeds, is a gathering place for fishermen and bathers living in the village of Ilyich, as well as car tourists. One of its sections is the territory of the ferry crossing Port Kavkaz.
Rest in the west of the Krasnodar Territory
A beautiful landscape is the Temryuk district in the Krasnodar Territory. Spit Chushka is one of the three main local "visiting cards", because it is located simultaneously in the Black and Azov Seas. Many travelers aspire to the sandbar, attractive in outline and vegetation. Some of them are fishermen, the other half are lovers of picnics with intensive swimming.
Characteristically, Chushka has a more impressive width than Tuzla - from 500 to 1000 m. As a result, this geographical feature can also be called a peninsula. Its northwestern side is relatively straight, and the southeastern one resembles a horse's mane from above - a huge number of processes extend from the main massif of the coast. The backwaters formed by them in spring and in the first half of June turn into spawning pits for herring, flounder, crucian carp, pike, goby and ram.
The building material of the "resort" tract is large quartzite and shell rock. The highway and the railway road under construction run along an artificial embankment - they are protected from flooding. The beaches are located where there is still more sand than vegetation. They are located in the area closest to Ilyich. The entry into the sea here is shallow, but there are equally many shells (with sharp edges) along the entire length.
Additional opportunities in Temryuk district
At the Chushka Spit there are two isolated pieces of land - the islands of Krupinin and Dzendzik. They can be reached by any watercraft, which has been used by local couples in love more than once. But the islands of Lisy and Golenky are so small that few people know about them. Here you can safely hide any treasures - the main thing is to at least find them yourself later.
Some come to the farthest end of the sandy outgrowth, thinking that just here there will be no one. However, too many people think so - the southwestern patch is crammed with cars with Krasnodar and other numbers.
Reviews left online by hundreds of tourists call this place "solid sandy beach”, “sand hidden in the reeds”, “fish place”, “warehouse of beautiful shells” and other epithets. Often this location is used by small groups of nudists, but none of their clubs have organized a permanent beach here. Buy food for a picnic in Ilyich.
How to get (get there)?
It is easy to get to the Chushka Spit along the R-251 highway. It starts from the Krasnodar Western Bypass, passes through the villages of Elizavetinskaya, Maryanskaya, Novomyshastovskaya and Ivanovskaya. Further, the highway goes to Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Anastavievskaya, Kurchanskaya, Temryuk, Peresyp and the village of Ilyich. To better orient you, we offer a route and a map:
Note to the tourist
- Address: Ilyich village, Temryuksky district, Krasnodar Territory, Russia.
- Coordinates: 45.352476, 36.696242.
In dozens of amateur and professional photos, the Chushka Spit looks either like a meadow overgrown with tall greenery, or like a coarse sandy water edge with small shells sticking out here and there. Under the grass you can’t see water at all, so those who came here for the first time should be careful. In conclusion, as usual, we offer a short overview of the described place, enjoy viewing!
Tuzla Spit is located near the village of Taman in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory. This is a well-known and popular holiday destination among both tourists and locals.
Tuzla Spit on the map of the Krasnodar Territory
Having seen enough photos of the Tuzla Spit on the Internet, we decided to go to rest between the two seas. To get to the Tuzla Spit by car, you need to drive through Temryuk to Taman. In Temryuk, by the way, you can buy a good one at the factory. When you reach Taman, look carefully at the signs. There will be pointers to the scythe. The road to the Tuzla Spit, although unpaved, is quite flat and can be driven by any car without difficulty.
On one side of the Tuzla Spit, the sea was muddy and gray, and on the other, dark blue. 
The Tuzla Spit itself is made artificially. It acts as a narrow long strip directly into the sea. Its length is about 4 kilometers. They say that the fish on the Tuzla Spit are visible and invisible. I didn’t fish myself, but there are a lot of fishermen on the spit, both from one side and the other.
Fans of spearfishing and diving are also enough on the spit. Dolphins often come here, stingrays are found, or as they are also called sea cats, you can find shells - rapana, gobies, mullet, pelengas and flounder. I am telling from the words of a local fisherman with whom we talked.
Opposite the Tuzla Spit, Ukraine is the Kerch Strait, after all. Mobile phones immediately start working in roaming mode and receive SMS, where you are congratulated on the fact that you have come to Ukraine. 
Entry into the sea on most of the spit is not very good. Most of the stones near the shore are large and quite sharp. Putting up a tent is also problematic. Near the coast there is a very narrow strip of land. And stopping right on the road is both inconvenient and unsafe.
But if you drive almost to the very end of the tuzla spit, there will be an already equipped beach. Here the entry into the sea is normal and there is a place for tents. But if it blows strong wind staying on the spit is not very pleasant. We did not risk it and left for the Taman Peninsula. We stopped in a wonderful place, a small lagoon, where there was almost no wind, and the sea and nature were amazing.
This is a photo of the Tuzla Spit from the sea. A long yellow stripe stretched far, far away.
Spit Tuzla (Tuzlinskaya spit) - a spit in the Kerch Strait on the Taman Peninsula, near the village of Taman. There are many interesting geographical objects near the spit. There are toponyms such as Tuzla Island, Tuzla Lake, Tuzla Cape.
The Tuzla Spit was formed as a result of the union of small islands and shoals, with the constant influence of the ebbs and flows of the Black and Azov Seas. Due to which there was a gradual deposition of sand and its accumulation on a long section of the formed spit. As a result economic activity man, the island of Tuzla was formed, which was part of the spit back in the 20s of the last century. The island was part of Ukraine until 2014. In 2003 during border conflict between the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian Republic, the spit was strengthened and lengthened. It was planned to restore the blurred area between the skeleton and the spit. But as a result of the conflict, further construction and strengthening of the coast ended. Its length is about 4 km.
The Tuzla Spit is a unique place on the one hand washed by the Black Sea and on the other by the waters of the Taman Bay belonging to the Sea of Azov, from it you can also see the island of Tuzla and Cape Tuzla itself, the Kerch Strait, the Crimean peninsula, the Taman hills, parking of large-capacity sea vessels, a panorama of the spit opens Chushka and port Kavkaz. This is a place of active fishing and recreation. In summer, camping and a beach operated on the spit. I advise you to take warm clothes with you, as the place is open and the wind can be very, very cold.
V this moment construction work is underway on the spit. A bridge is already being erected between the spit and Tuzla Island. Soon, very soon, the main bridge will be built.
